Cruel Intentions 2(2000)

This takes place several years before Cruel Intentions (1999), back to when Kathryn first meets Sebastian, their sexual attraction to each other and their enjoyment in destroying the lives of their peers.

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A few years before the events depicted in the 1999 film. It follows the lives of rich step siblings Sebastian Valmont and Kathryn Merteuil as they playfully manipulate the people surrounding them at their exclusive New York prep school. Written by
Phil Fernando

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Trivia

Sebastian says "God, we sound like a canceled television series" and that's exactly what happened. See more »

Goofs

The exterior of the limo that is shown taking Sebastian and Kathryn to school changes from the time that it is initially shown to the time it is seen in front of the school. The first limo shown has different rims than the one that shows up in front of the school. The first limo also lacks the chrome trim around the bottom of the doors that the one that pulls up in front of the school has. See more »

Quotes

Fred:
Oh my God, Kathryn is just terrible.
Min Lin:
She's a bitch!
Sebastian:
If it's so bad here, why don't you guys just quit?
Henry:
It's steady employment, sir.
Gunther:
This is a good address. I could be working in a seedy restaurant down in the lower 50s!
Min Lin:
Or worse, Scarsdale. The ladies there make me crazy! All the time sending me to the market looking for gefilte. My father was a fisherman for over 20 years and he never caught one gefilte. And, what is a gefilte?
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To understand how this film came to be, you first should know the backstory. In 1999, Fox bought a pilot TV show called Manchester Prep, a "reimagined" prequel to the film Cruel Intentions. It had all the same characters as the film and spread a fairly similar plot over the 22 episode arc. The film's producing and directing team oversaw creation of the TV show and production began. '99 was a decent year for TV and one of the gems was a show called Popular. Popular turned out to be....well, popular and Manchester Prep was canceled before it ever aired it's pilot. The first few episodes were already shot, so it was repackaged with a few re-shoots and rewrites (and some gratuitous nudity) into the form of Cruel Intentions 2.

The tonal changes throughout the film and different stylistic changes that plague the film are due to the segments of the TV episodes having been shot by different directors and then roughly tied together with reshoots by another director for the movie version. The film takes on a "pulp" feel as it plays on the inside jokes from the original film (which was designed to set up a connection between the show and the film as time progressed) and panders to the innuendos of the film in the lowest exploitative ways possible.

If you look hard enough you will find its connection to the first film, however viewing Cruel Intentions 2 before the original will likely dissuade you from viewing the original as this one lacks the sophistication and charisma of the original.

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